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- 13 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen
stranger might be, and then imagined a conversation with this person, predicting the extent to which this stranger would pay attention and listen attentively, or steer the conversation toward themselves. The researchers found that when... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
Social Strategies That Work
Over a billion people use social platforms on the Internet, making them the most frequently visited category of sites. Some platforms, such as eHarmony, MeetUp, and Twitter, allow us to connect to strangers. eHarmony alone is estimated to account for one in six new... View Details
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
experiences as managers when a stern approach helped set an employee on a more productive course. Soon, many students are rethinking their position. "The ones that say they couldn't imagine learning from someone like a Coach Knight,... View Details
- Web
Life at Harvard - Doctoral
Living in Boston Boston offers opportunities to collaborate with leading scholars across all fields and disciplines. Start your journey in Harvard Square, one of the world's great crossroads, and make your way to Central Square, home to every View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
best be used. DM: Yeah, talk about how the landscape has changed for a patient now who's diagnosed with multiple myeloma because of the work at the MMRF. KG: It's changed dramatically because before Imagine I'm sitting there thinking I... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
trying to imagine ways to get up to my pre-COVID fulltime equivalency. None of it seems to work.” After receiving a PPP loan, “it wasn’t a relief to get the money. It is a really bad catch-22,” said Annie Shi, co-founder of King in New... View Details
- Profile
Taylor Walden
were countless times during my extensive GRE journey when I questioned if pursuing business school was truly necessary. However, knowing what I know now, I realize the immense value of persevering through those doubts. My time at HBS has profoundly changed my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
The result is a look into the minds of three tech pioneers who, to outside appearances, don't share much in common. "When I mention I wrote the book, the first response I get is, 'I can't imagine three more different people,'"... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
not take a great deal of capital nor technological expertise to launch an entrepreneurial venture in many beauty products—although for such a venture to have any hope of success, high levels of imagination and creativity have always been... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
opportunities that their previous employers may have failed in or overlooked. Imagine how the last year might have been for all of us if Eric Yuan—formerly an executive at Cisco WebEx—was unable to go on to launch Zoom Video... View Details
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
adopt differently-structured communication networks for each category," the authors write. "In other words, rather than allow the march of technology to dictate organizational performance, it is possible to imagine technology... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
my body. I realized I had been preparing every real and imagined path for my boys. I was, like, weed whacking so that they would not learn or experience anything. And then I realized, I'm not supposed to weed whack the path. I'm supposed... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
soon as the checkbook comes out a flood of emotions comes out with it—fear, anxiety, competiveness, anger, annoyance—all of which can influence what either side is willing to accept. “I can't imagine a good negotiator who doesn't have... View Details
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
powerful to see someone who’s very sophisticated still be taken advantage of,” he says. “If you think about how many people in the US lack financial knowledge, you can only imagine what could potentially be happening to them.” About the... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
question. What follows are six ways to make your threats more credible in negotiation. 1. Increase your costs of not following through on your threat Imagine that you're thinking about bidding to acquire another company that would be of... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 21 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree
conducting. Our alumni are doing everything imaginable in the law and business worlds, and while I haven’t yet been able to go on a JD/MBA retreat, I’ve gotten to talk to healthcare leaders, union leaders, and startup founders in fairly... View Details
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
to change. It's so hard to monitor or fix compared to the machine. Layne: In layman's terms, how does your solution, BEAT, work? You mentioned surge pricing for car services as an example. Israeli: So, imagine we have three different... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
Over the past few decades, information technology jobs worked their way into the popular imagination as among the most stable, fast-rising, and lucrative ways to make a living, bolstered in the 1990s by the dot-com boom. What astronauts... View Details
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Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant... View Details